Small Erotion while playing was carried aloft by a gnat, and cried,
"What can I do, Father Zeus, if thou dost claim me?"
XXIV ARTEMIDORA LUCILIUS
Fanning thin Artemidora in her sleep, Demetrius blew her clean out of the house.
XXV THE ATOMIC THEORY LUCILIUS
Epicurus wrote that the whole universe consisted of atoms, thinking, Alcimus, that the atom was the least of things. But if Diophantus had lived then, he would have written, "consisted of Diophantus," who is much more minute than even the atoms, or would have written that all other things indeed consist of atoms, but the atoms themselves of him.
XXVI CHAEREMON LUCILIUS
Borne up by a slight breeze, Chaeremon floated through the clear air, far lighter than chaff, and probably would have gone spinning off through ether, but that he caught his feet in a spider's web, and dangled there on his back; there he hung five nights and days, and on the sixth came down by a strand of the web.
XXVII GOD AND THE DOCTOR NICARCHUS
Marcus the doctor called yesterday on the marble Zeus; though marble, and though Zeus, his funeral is to-day.